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"You mean, You-Know-who is out there right now in the Forest?" Hermione asked Nora and Harry as the quartet had placed themselves on the comfortable couches in the Gryffindor common room.

"Yes, but he's weak." Nora answered and Harry went on. "He's living off the unicorns. Don't you see? We had it wrong."

"I still don't get why anybody would want to live off a unicorn. That's barbaric." Caroline said. Her younger self would be traumatized by watching something like that.

"Yes. Who would want to hurt something so innocent?" Elena asked.

"Snape doesn't want the Stone for himself. He wants the stone for Voldemort."

"Oh hell no." Klaus grumbled. Voldemort better stay 10 000 miles away from his niece.

"With the Elixir of Life, Voldemort will be strong again. He'll come back." Harry finished, now stopping his pacing and sitting down next to Ron.

"But if he comes back, you don't think he'll try to kill you two, do you?" Ron questioned, swallowing, disturbed at the thought of his two friends being murdered.

"I think if he'd had the chance, he might have tried to kill us tonight." Nora said honestly. In moments like these she couldn't help but wonder what if her parents were alive, or at least one of them. Would they protect them? Would they protect her, like the first time. Is it her fault they were dead?

"Of course we would have protected you." Elijah said and everyone turned to him with sadness. Well almost everyone. Damon didn't even try to show interest to the Original's sadness.

Nobody deserved this.

Neither Nora or Harry's life.

But neither did Lily, James and Jasmine.

And Elijah and Sirius would be the only alive parents to look after their children. While their friends or in Elijah's case, the love of his life and the mother of his child was dead.

"Of course it isn't her fault." Lily said. She, Jasmine and James had done what any parent would do. If it meant they had to die to give the twins a happy life, they would've... but this, this was not a happy life.

Would they have had everything Nora had heard Hermione tell her about her muggle parents, who she already adored for give life to a wonderful person as Hermione.

"And to think, I've been worrying about my Potions final."

"Ah, Ron, did you have to say that. Now I'm worried too." Nora muttered.

"Hang on a minute. We're forgetting one thing. Who's the one wizard Voldemort always feared?"

"Dumbledore." Nora answered easily, as the two boys looked at each other confused not knowing the answer.

"Precisely. As long as Dumbledore is around you're safe. As long as Dumbledore is around, you can't be touched."

"Yeah, I just don't believe that." Finn said and Elijah and Klaus agreed with their older brother.

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"I'd always heard Hogwarts' end of the year exams were frightful, but I found that rather enjoyable." Hermione rambled.

"Enjoyable?" Bonnie asked.

"Yeah, I don't think we have much in common with her." Jeremy added.

Who in hell loved exams?

Who in hell even loved school?

But Bonnie would love school if she was at Hogwarts.

"Speak for yourself." Ron said, rolling his eyes. "All right there, Nora, Harry?" He asked, seeing the twins frowns.

"My scar." Nora answered, clutching her head in pain.

"It keeps burning." Harry spoke, hand also against his head.

"It's happened before."

"Not like this." And Harry nodded in agreement with Nora.

"This is not good." Kol said, a frown that matched Nora's.

Rebekah slapped the back of his head. "You think?"

"Perhaps we should see the nurse?" Ron suggested.

"I think it's a warning. It means danger's coming." They stopped walking when Nora spoke. "Of course." She looked towards Hagrid's hut.

"What is it?"

Harry's coin fell. "Don't you think it's a bit odd that what Hagrid wants more than anything is a dragon" Harry said as they started to run down. "and a stranger turns up, who just happens to have one?"

"I mean, how many people wander around with dragon eggs in their pockets?" Nora asked.

"Why didn't we see it before?"

"It still scares me that you two think so alike." Ron said quietly.

"Hagrid, who gave you the dragon egg? What did he look like?" Harry asked as they finally stopped running, standing in front of Hagrid, who had been playing on the music whistle.

"I don't know, I never saw his face. He kept his hood up." The giant answered.

"This stranger, though, you and he must have talked." Nora said.

"Well, he wanted to know what sort of creatures I looked after. I told him. I said 'After Fluffy, a dragon's gonna be no problem."

"And did he seem interested in Fluffy?" Nora asked.

"Well, of course he was interested in Fluffy. How often do you come across a three-headed dog, even if you're in the trade? But I told him. I said 'The trick with any beast is to know how to calm him.' Take Fluffy, for example. Just play him a bit of music and he falls straight to sleep."

"Oh, Hagrid." Lily sighed.

"I feel like they're gonna do something stupid." Stefan said.

"They only do things to get themselves in trouble, Stefan." Damon spoke to his brother.

"Looks who's talking." Klaus glared.

Hermione and Nora shared a look as they all gasped. If Hargid told them, why not to Snape?

"I shouldn't have told you that." Hargid spoke and the three started to run back to the castle.

"Where are you going? Wait!" Nora heard Hagird call for them.

"Hey, Helena." Nora spoke as she passed the ghost in McGonagall's classroom, receiving a smile from the dead woman.

"We have to see Professor Dumbledore, immediately!" Harry spoke to McGonagall.

"Yes, finally something responsible." Finn said, happy that his niece and the others were finally talking to a teacher.

"I'm afraid Professor Dumbledore is not here." She spoke making all mouths hang half open. "He received an urgent owl from the Ministry of Magic and left immediately for Londen."

"He's gone? Now?"

"Oh, now he is gone, huh?" Kol said. "Just when they need him."

"But this is important, professor." Nora begged her.

"This is about the Philosopher's Stone!" Harry said.

"How do you know?" Minerva asked, eyes wide open.

"Someone's going to try and steal it."

"I don't know how you three found out about the stone, but I assure you it is perfectly well protected. Now would you go back to your dormitories? Quietly."

The three sighed, knowing she wasn't going to listen. They walked walk outside of the classroom to the hallway.

"That was no stranger Hagrid met in the village. It was Snape. Which means he knows how to get past Fluffy."

"And with Dumbledore gone-" Hermione started but she was interrupted.

"Good afternoon." Snape's voice sounded after them. Ron looked terrified to Nora who turned around to face Snape.

"BOO." Kol said.

"Now what would four young Gryffindors such as yourselves be doing inside on a day like this?" Snape asked slowly.

"As if you care." James muttered.

"We- um- were just-" Hermione stammered as Snape cut her off. "You ought to be careful. People will think you're up to something."

"The only one up to something is your ass." Jeremy said.

He turned around and walked away, his robe swinging behind him.

"Now what do we do?" Hermione asked the Potters.

Nora shared a look with Harry, knowing that he was thinking about the same thing as her. "We go down the trap door. Tonight."

"No, don't do that." Elijah said, worriedly.

But deep down he knew.

They would do it anyway even if it wasn't safe.

"Oh they're so going down that door."

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Really short chapter, I know, but the next one if gonna be longer again seeing as it's the with the trapdoor.

Words: 1291

Posted: February 28, 2024

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x Kat